BmoreArt’s Connect+Collect Gallery presents a video installation by Miguel Braceli in its newly installed digital window gallery.
“Geopolitical Games,” is a participatory project by artist Miguel Braceli that will begin screening Tuesday, January 26.
Geopolitical Games started in 2020 as project to enhance diversity and unity in the context of an electoral year, the movements for social justice, and the increasing polarization in The US. A series of performances aims to stimulate these values through conversations and playful interactions between different people across the East Coast. In Geopolitical Games we approach a North American imaginary of deflated nationalisms, a national identity built through open play, and political systems sustained in a citizen exchange. The project continues in a post-electoral year amid a national struggle demanding justice and equality.
This video is part of Braceli’s “Geopolitics of the body,” a series of performances that creates dialogue between people and place, inviting reflections on issues of migration, national identity and social fractures. The video was originally exhibited in October 2020 at CulturalDC’s Source Theatre in Washington DC as part of Connect+Collect Gallery Coordinator Teri Henderson’s SUBVERSIONS project. To screen this video in Baltimore post presidential election and post transferring of power is an indication of hope, healing and reconciliation.
From Jan. 26 through Feb. 20, “Geopolitical Games” will be on view nightly from 6 to 10 p.m. at BmoreArt’s Connect+Collect Gallery, 2519 North Charles Street.
About Miguel Braceli:
Braceli is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, architecture and education. His practice focuses on participatory projects in public space. Most of these projects have been large scale works, developed in countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, México, Spain, Sweden, the United States and Venezuela. These works explore notions of borders, migrations, national identities and social-political conflicts, working from the geopolitical geography to a human scale.
He has exhibited in galleries, biennials, and important group shows in Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. Braceli is also Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and has led participatory and educational projects with institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts of Caracas and the U.S. and Spanish embassies in Venezuela. He has been a visiting professor in Schools of Architecture from Umeå University in Sweden, Catholic University of Chile and University of Zulia in Venezuela. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar working and living in the U.S.
